Personal Financial Planning

Key tax and retirement provisions in the Secure 2.0 Act

The year-end appropriations act included the Secure 2.0 Act, which makes many changes to the retirement plan rules, including expanding automatic enrollment and increasing the starting age for required minimum distributions.

Smart tax strategies for lottery winners

Did a client finally hit their lucky number? Here’s why you should convince them to elect installment payments over the lump-sum option if they win millions in the lottery.

Recent developments in estate planning: Part 2

In this second installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation, the topics include split-dollar life insurance arrangements, indirect gifts, formula clauses in transfers of limited partnership interests, valuation discounts, and grantor retained annuity trusts.

Considerations for philanthropic vehicle decisions

Philanthropic giving involves consideration of several structures and depends on factors including client control, level of contribution or investment, and the ability and willingness of the client’s family to participate in administrating the endeavor.

Retirement transition: Crucial decisions

A CPA’s advice becomes even more vital once a client retires since poor decisions about Social Security, Medicare, and other retirement funding strategies will hamper clients for the rest of their lives.

Indirect gift tax considerations for 2021

It is important to consider some of the less-obvious gifts when you are advising clients who are intent on using up their full $11.7 million basic exclusion amount before the end of the year.

Tax Insider Articles

DEDUCTIONS

Business meal deductions after the TCJA

This article discusses the history of the deduction of business meal expenses and the new rules under the TCJA and the regulations and provides a framework for documenting and substantiating the deduction.

TAX RELIEF

Quirks spurred by COVID-19 tax relief

This article discusses some procedural and administrative quirks that have emerged with the new tax legislative, regulatory, and procedural guidance related to COVID-19.